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I've been "messing around" with meditation for almost a year now, doing it maybe once or twice a week for anywhere from 10 to 25 minutes. I used to do it while my wife slept beside me, figuring if she woke up she'd just think it was the typical weird Dante laying next to her, flat on his back with a pillow across his face. I didn't want to tell her what I'd been doing because I knew it would just widen the gulf that was growing between us as I drifted ever closer to pursuing my mystical / spiritual aims and she drifted ever farther from her own.
Meditation is something I've known for over 30 years I would one day all but devote my life to, but I also knew that once I decided to commit to it, there was turning back. It would require a minimum of 2 1/2 hours daily for the rest of my life and was a major part of several vows I would have to take, but the others including vegetarianism, I had taken years ago. This was "the final frontier" on my spiritual quest.
To me, and millions of others, it is vitally important and not something to be entered into lightly. It is not something to just "try" and discard if you find it too difficult. That's because, unlike a lot of forms of meditation, the kind I have always known I was destined for is not for health or relaxation, though those are but two of the wonderful "side effects," but for something far more superior to any of that. In fact as "superior" as one can get.
Regardless of your aims, when you disengage the mind for even non-spiritual aims, and enter into deep states of meditation every day for periods of just 20 minutes or up to 2 1/2 hours or more, it quickly becomes clear that there are incredible benefits beyond whatever spiritual goals you might have, if any.
I've read all kinds of studies that say meditation for even as little as 20 minutes daily can start to have noticeable beneficial effects on people in as little as a month. I can now say, with 100% certainty, that this is the truth. Just the energy levels and mood elevation alone have shown me how great meditation is for my overall health and outlook. Only three days after I began meditating for a minimum of 2 1/2 hours a day I began to feel an amazing change.
I don't care if you are a world class athlete and feel like you are mentally and physically on top of the world. If you aren't meditating regularly, you need to start. I can't emphasize that enough. It's an amazing experience and you will feel incredible.
If you haven't ever looked into the studies about the incredible positive physical, mental and emotional effects of deep meditation, I encourage you to do a little research. I'm not suggesting any of you become renunciates. I'm talking about regular old, basic meditation here.
I know a lot of my readers like to be spanked and though there are many aspects about it that appeal to different people, in the "end" it almost always comes down to endorphins. It's about a "high."
I promise that any "high" one gets from a spanking doesn't hold a candle to the sheer bliss you can get from meditation. Forget all the other great benefits, just the wonderful and amazing mood alteration is enough to make it worth looking into.
All I can say is, if you have never tried it, you really need to give it a shot. And if you have done it and didn't get the results you hoped for, give it time and give up any expectations. Just relax and enjoy the peace. The benefits will come in time if you don't give up. And when they do, you'll understand exactly why it was well worth the wait!
